The Senate is set to pass a bipartisan agreement to put all FAA employees back to work, Air France kept female flight attendants away from Strauss-Kahn, Pisa is ridding the city of distasteful souvenirs, and more. Here are the stories that travellers are buzzing about:

FAA employees go back to workThe 74,000 transportation and construction Federal Aviation
Administration employees currently out of work because of the
partial shutdown will be receiving their paychecks again soon, as Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the House and Senate have reached an
agreement. The deal, which Reid expects the Senate to pass today, is a
temporary solution to reauthorize
funding, the Huffington Post reports. It
lasts through mid-September, so lawmakers will have to address the issue again
when Congress is back in session next month.

Air France only allowed male flight attendants to
serve Strauss-KahnNews has surfaced that Air France staff, accustomed to Dominique Strauss-Kahn “sexually
abusing” its female flight attendants, only permitted
males to serve him, according to the Daily Mail. French presidential
candidate and former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn is accused of sexually assaulting a
hotel staff member in New York City. Newspaper Le
Parisien broke the story after receiving an anonymous letter from an Air
France employee.

Pisa issues fines for raunchy souvenirsLocal authorities in Pisa are targeting
vendors that sell offensive interpretations of the famous leaning tower
with fines of around 500 euros. Government members in Pisa, Florence, Siena and
two other popular Tuscan tourist spots are asking regional authorities for more
power and permission to rid their destinations of improper merchandise, the
Sydney Morning Herald reports.

WatchThree brief, but packed, wanderlust-inducing videos EAT, MOVE and LEARN are the work of three
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Quotable“So starting an American football league in India seems like a
ridiculous idea. But it's happening. As the Sports Business Journal reported
on Thursday, the Elite Football League of India (EFLI) plans to kick off in the
fall of 2012.”

– Time
magazine reports on India’s new American football league, of which one
notable investor is former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka.